2005 - 2006 - Mount Sinai Hospital

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THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: A PROUD HISTORY Rose Torno The women who comprise the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary have much to celebrate. With more than 1,200 members, North America’s largest hospital auxiliary has a well-deserved reputation for creativity, enthusiasm, dedication, sisterhood — and very successful philanthropy. That philanthropy is focused on providing high-risk newborns a better start in life — a cause connected to the creation of the group 52 years ago by Rose Torno. The Auxiliary raises funds through initiatives like baby photographs, plaques, and events including the Wine Down Easy Auction and the annual Gala. The Gala is comprised of an exciting performance — in 2005 by comedian Jerry Seinfeld and most recently by multiple Juno award winner Michael Bublé — and an online Dream Auction, raffle, and Perspectives magazine…all of which bring in funds that go toward the Auxiliary’s ambitious $3.5-million pledge called “Healthy Babies” in support of the Women’s and Infants’ Health Program. Launched in 2005, the campaign supports the purchase of isolettes for the Valentine Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fetal Monitoring System, and Fetal Health Research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. These funds will have an impact on providing highquality care to the hospital’s youngest, most vulnerable patients. Today, the Auxiliary continues stronger than ever and proudly emulates the values that began with Rose Torno’s vision of a sisterhood that would support excellence in healthcare at Mount Sinai. ■ order to improve the lives of our patients. Our scientists are pioneers in cell signalling, stem-cell research, systems biology, molecular genetics and genomic medicine. Pushing the limit of what will be possible tomorrow is what some of the world’s very best researchers are doing today — and they’re doing it right here at the SLRI. And while Dr. Jim Woodgett, our new Director of the Institute, brims with enthusiasm for the SLRI and our ground-breaking work, he points out that the discoveries made hundreds of years ago are the ones saving lives today. “In research,” he says, “all change is incremental. Although a scientific breakthrough may not result in immediate change… research means hope.” receive special programs for compassionate, end-of-life care through our remarkable Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, they are treated with respect, intelligence and kindness. Our clinicians offer more than their renowned high-level skills and great minds; they also share their big hearts. This annual report can only focus on a few individuals, but they represent the people who embody patient and family-centred care and who make up our hospital. At Mount Sinai, it always comes back to one thing: patient care. This commitment and passion combined with knowledge make Mount Sinai one of Canada’s foremost patient care, research and academic health centres. Commitment, Passion, Knowledge … Every day, our multi-disciplinary professional health teams accomplish miracles, treating patients of all ages, at all stages. Whether people come to Mount Sinai as one of more than 40,000 annual patients in the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Centre or 16 A COMMUNITY OF CARING
Edward Sonshine, Q.C. Chair, Board of Directors Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation Carol Wilding President, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation BUILDING SUPPORT “Mount Sinai is more than a hospital. It is a community.” Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation is both fortunate and privileged. Fortunate because we enjoy enthusiastic support from our compassionate and generous donors as well as unparalleled dedication from our volunteers and staff. Privileged in that the hospital’s remarkable team of doctors, nurses and researchers continue to receive international acclaim for a wide range of clinical and scientific achievements. Fortunate and privileged because we can build on our remarkable heritage to create a remarkable present and future. The result A spectacular year of accomplishments in 2005-06. Consider the following: The Best Medicine campaign reached $293 million — with more than $40 million raised in new pledges and one-time donations. A record $32 million in revenue was realized, which was, and is, an incredible 19 per cent increase over the previous year in revenue and donations. In this, our first full year at the foundation’s helm, we were humbled by the exceptional support we received from our donors. For our foundation to achieve this level of excellence in an intensely competitive fundraising environment is truly inspiring. It is a testament to the dedicated efforts of our donor family and the entire fundraising team. Everyone associated with our collective efforts appreciates that the renowned quality of Mount Sinai’s care is made possible with our donors’ enduring philanthropic support. We all understand that while government provides funding to cover most of our operating costs, it is donor funds that enable Mount Sinai Hospital and our Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute to deliver the best patient care possible, with renowned multi-disciplinary teams, stateof-the-art technologies, and leading-edge clinical programs. Our donors understand clearly and appreciate deeply that their gifts enable the ground-breaking scientific research that takes place at our Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute by such worldrenowned scientists as the Institute’s new Director, Dr. Jim Woodgett, as well as Dr. Tony Pawson, whose award-winning studies focus on how signals transmitted between cells in the human body form patterns of communication that can trigger certain diseases. Our donor community comprises an extraordinary group of individuals and organizations. They recognize that it is essential — and expensive — to remain at 2005–06 ANNUAL REPORT 17
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